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On “Rolling Your Own” Large jQuery Apps, published on Tuesday, 17 August 2010 5:40AMAs a preface, make sure you've read my super-smart and talented yayQuery co-host Rebecca Murphey's blog post on this topic here: On jQuery Large Applications and here: On Rolling Your Own. Rebecca points out some huge holes in the jQuery-verse when it comes to large-application development, and gives her opinion on why she doesn't think jQuery [...]
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TXJS and ScriptJunkie, published on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 5:31AMI have been pretty neglectful of my blog since I started at Bazaarvoice, but I think I'm going to try to pick up a little bit. That being said, here's a short update. I am now a featured author on ScriptJunkie - a new website from Microsoft about front end development. Check out my post [...]
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Superclassy Inheritance with Javascript Video, published on Monday, 08 March 2010 6:00PMHere is the uncut director's edition of my talk given on February 20th, 2010 concerning Inheritance patterns in Javascript. Please forgive the rambling, and the bit of extra footage on either end of the talk. Superclassy Inheritance with Javascript - Alex Sexton - NCJS 02/20/10 from yayQuery on Vimeo.
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Using Inheritance Patterns to Organize Large jQuery Applications, published on Thursday, 25 February 2010 9:17PMI want to introduce/reinforce a pattern for developing large applications with jQuery. I did not invent any of this, but I find that the resources that describe this technique are few and far-between.- so I'm taking a shot at it. By and large, when using jQuery, developers seem to forget the paradigms they learned for [...]
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Superclassy Inheritance in JavaScript Developer Day Talk Slides, published on Sunday, 31 January 2010 7:55AMI thought I would make a quick post for anyone coming here for my slides from Developer-Day here in Austin. Superclassy Inheritance In Javascript View more presentations from Alex Sexton. I plan on giving a screencast of sorts a try, and perhaps even breaking up some of the sections into a few blog posts on [...]
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Invalid JSON in jQuery 1.4 and beyond, published on Monday, 25 January 2010 11:11PMI'm pretty happy about jQuery's move to only supporting valid JSON, as well as it's standardization across browsers to enforce that rule, even if native JSON parsing isn't being used. I think it's silly for people to expect things to work when they are passing invalid data back and forth. Much like no one would [...]
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Don’t let document ready slow you down., published on Friday, 08 January 2010 7:39PMI just wanted to quickly post about a common performance hit that I see in pages (including a bit of my old stuff), especially ones that load data on page load. A common pattern for application development loads a page template with the application code included and then makes an asynchronous data request to load [...]
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yayQuery Podcast 1.0, published on Friday, 06 November 2009 4:50PMA few of the ladies and fellas from the #jquery IRC (Adam J. Sontag, Paul Irish, & Rebecca Murphey) and I decided to make a podcast on the topic of jQuery. We landed on the name yayQuery! From Paul's blog post: --------- We talk about... Underscore.js - a great utility belt (very handy for Ruby/Python [...]
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Goto.js, published on Saturday, 04 July 2009 10:41PMToday I launched my new site www.summerofgoto.com. It is the official new homepage for my new script Goto.js. Goto.js adds the functionality of the goto command into native javascript. It uses James Padolsey's parseScripts as a preparser and rewrites the input code to be valid javascript. Leave it to me to write programs solely for [...]
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Class Blog:, published on Tuesday, 23 June 2009 7:00AMHello all, I don't expect a terribly large readership, but hopefully I can post some things that will help some people along the way. This will be less of a personal endeavor and more of a location for me to write about some of the things that I create or think are cool in my [...]
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